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Friday, October 19, 2012

Review: Demon's Caress by Crystal Jordan

The story definitely grabs your
attention from the very beginning as we catch up with Maron as she’s on the
hunt.Her former partner was reassigned,
because she’d entered into a Triad bond, so now she’s been saddled with two new
partners and she struggles to put some distance between herself and them so
she’s not tempted to enter into that bond everyone’s hoping they’ll form.Despite hot sex, she continuously tries to
push them away, and it begins to cause problems in the field.

My biggest problem with the
story was that I just didn’t quite fully connect to all the details.Her tragic past was sad, yes, but I still
didn’t feel like it matched the level of fear and determination that she used
to fight the bonding urge.I could also
tell that there was a deep bond between the characters, but I didn’t feel it as
strongly as I knew I should’ve.I can’t
put my finger on why, maybe simply how quick everything happened (it all took
place over maybe 24 hours or so).

Despite the slightly shallow
connection I personally made to the story, I did still connect to it and enjoy
it.It was a very hot story and the
world was neat.The fact that human’s
automatically forget they were ever in the presence of demons is handy and who
wouldn’t enjoy being able to shoot fire balls?Maybe even a little lightning?I
liked the characters, but it was actually a secondary character that was probably
my favorite, Samael (Maron’s boss).For
being a big bad upper demon, he likes to play matchmaker and has a sense of
humor.He and the world the author built
were my favorite parts, not counting the sweaty sex of course, especially in
the elevator!